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US Allies throughout the region are demanding that the US increase presence in Asia to counter China
Solomon and Hayashi 2010

(Jay Solomon and Yuka Hayashi, Asia News Correspondents, “As China Swaggers, Neighbors Embrace U.S”, Wall Street Journal, May 25, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704026204575266333652277148.html)

Further afield, countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam have also been seeking closer ties to the U.S. in recent months, according to U.S. and Asian diplomats. These countries are quietly voicing fears about China's expanding military and economic power. Analysts say that the more China has sought to assert its regional authority, the more many Asian leaders have pressed Washington to maintain, if not increase, its military and diplomatic presence.
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A decline of US military presence in the Asia-Pacific would enable China to expand, causing instability in the region

Holmes 9 (Kim, Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy Heritage Foundation, Sustaining American leadership with Military Power, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/06/Sustaining-American-Leadership-with-Military-Power)

The consequences of hard-power atrophy will be a direct deterioration of America's diplomatic clout. This is already on display in the western Pacific Ocean, where America's ability to hedge against the growing ambitions of a rising China is being called into question by some of our key Asian allies. Recently, Australia released a defense White Paper that is concerned primarily with the potential decline of U.S. military primacy and the implications that this decline would have for Australian security and stability in the Asia-Pacific. These developments are anything but reassuring. The ability of the United States to reassure friends, deter competitors, coerce belligerent states, and defeat enemies does not rest on the strength of our political leaders' commitment to diplomacy; it rests on the foundation of a powerful military. Only by retaining a "big stick" can the United States succeed in advancing its diplomatic priorities. Only by building a full-spectrum military force can America reassure its many friends and allies and count on their future support.

In order to check Chinese military expansion, the US needs to preserve its position as the dominant military power and reinvigorate ties in Southeast Asia

Tkacik 7(Jack, Senior Research Fellow in China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Policy, Executive Summary: China's Quest for a Superpower Military, http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2007/05/Executive-Summary-Chinas-Quest-for-a-Superpower-Military)

Geostrategic Implications. China's military expansion is extravagantly in excess of anything required by a responsible stakeholder in the existing international system and is even beyond that needed to "liberate" Taiwan. China shares land borders with 14 nations, none of which is a threat to it, yet China still has contentious territorial claims against India and Japan and in the South China Sea. China's gathering geopolitical punch portends a 21st century that may well become the Chinese century in Asia-a new century of China's support for illiberal forces that will buttress the legitimacy of Beijing's regime at home. What the Administration and Congress Should Do. Asia does not believe that Washing ton-preoccupied with Iraq-is concerned about China's spreading influence, much less that it has a strategic vision for the Pacific Rim. Managing the emerging security challenge requires a new U.S. partnership with democratic Asia and a new attitude in Washington. The U.S. should: List China as the top U.S. challenge. The entire bureaucracy must prepare to implement a coherent China policy to address defense, global, and regional issues, using counterintelligence and export control strategies as needed. Commit resources to preserving the U.S. position as the world's preeminent military power. America cannot bluff its way out of this challenge. America's most urgent needs are increasing its submarine fleet, enhancing its anti-submarine warfare capabilities, and ensuring the survivabil ity of its space platforms (e.g., satellites). Reinforce eroding alliances, eschew inclinations to take China's rhetorical side against Japan or against Taiwan, reinvigorate ties in Southeast Asia, build on new ties with India, and reengage the Atlantic Community in dialogue on shared global interests and values of human dignity and freedom. Conclusion. The Asian perception that the United States is a declining Pacific power may or may not prove prescient, but China is clearly emerging as the preeminent power in the Asia-Pacific. Faced with this reality, an engaged America can strengthen the current robust trans-Pacific alignment, knitting together the democracies of the Americas and the Western Pacific Rim, or a disengaged America can allow a Sino-centric continental axis to crystallize as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Taiwan, Korea, and eventually Japan, Australia, and South and Central Asia band wagon with China. The choices made in Washington on how to manage the emerging Chinese superpower will determine not only the direction of Asian democracy, but also the prospects for global political and economic freedoms in the 21st century.

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US presence in Asia protects against instability caused by China

Cossa 98 (Ralph, Senior editor of Comparitive Connections, Security Implications of Conflict in the South China Sea: Exploring Potential Triggers of Conflict, http://www.southchinasea.org/docs/Cossa,%20Security%20Implications%20of%20%20Conflict%20in%20the%20S.ChinaSea.pdf)

The clearest and most effective symbol of America's commitment to regional stability and the peaceful settlement of disputes in the South China Sea is the continued forward presence of U.S. military forces in Asia. The U.S. protective umbrella over Asia not only protects the security interests of regional friends and allies, it also protects and promotes America's political, economic, and security interests as well. U.S. forward-deployed forces help promote regional stability while guarding against unilateral acts of aggression, they increase the U.S. ability to respond to crises throughout the region, they demonstrate a U.S. commitment to friends and allies, they serve as a hedge against uncertainty, and they avoid a "power vacuum" that others who do not necessarily share our interests might be tempted to fill. In short, a continued U.S. military presence puts the "active" in any policy of active neutrality in the South China Sea. Region-wide, U.S. forward deployed forces provide a low cost insurance policy that helps guard against future regional instability while protecting and promoting American and broader regional security interests . . . and, they are seen as such by most, if not all nations in the region, perhaps including (begrudgingly) the PRC.